Key-socket attachment.



No. 66l,892. Patented Nov. I3. I900. T. M. PEPPER.

KEY, SOCKET ATTACHMENT.

(Application filed May 8, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE.

THERESA PEPPER, or SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

KEY-SOCKET ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,892, dated November 13, 1900.

Application filed May 3, 1900. serial No. 15,350. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THERESA M. PEPPER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Salem, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Key-Socket Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a device which may be readily and securely attached to the turning or switch key of an electric-lamp socket, so that the key may be turned by pulling ach'ain when the socket is out of the reach of the hand of the user.

My invention consists, essentially, of an attachment made of two sections of metal which are adapted to be bent around the keyin such a manner that they will be firmly secured thereto and will form two arms which extend from opposite sides of the key and to which chains of the desired length may be attached.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of an electric-lamp socket having my device attached to the key thereof. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line X X of Fig. 1, looking in the opposite direction from the view in Fig. 2. Figs. 4, 5, and 7 are views of the two sections of the attachment before they are bent. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a slight modification.

The electric-lamp socketptis provided with the usual key 17, having a stem b.

The attachment is made up of two pieces of sheet metal 0 and d, which are died out of ametal which is capable of being bent and yet which will offer considerable resistance to being bent out of shape after it has been bentinto the desired form. The metal piece 0 is cut so as to form a projecting strip 0, which extends from the middle of one side thereof for a suitable distance. (See Fig. 5.) The section 61 is provided with two projecting strips d d",which extend diagonally from the middle portion thereof, as shown in Fig. 4.

The method of applying the two sections to the key is as follows: The sections .are placed on opposite sides of the key, with their strips on the side next the socket. The strips 01 d are then bent up on opposite sides of the stem of the key and are pressed on section c, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The length of the strips will be such that the ends will nearly meet, as shown in Fig. 1. The strip c is then bent back on top of the strips (1 d",

locking them in place and securely locking section a to section d and both to the key. A chain 6 or its equivalent is placed in each end of the attachment, the length of which is of course made to suit the requirements. The means of attaching the chain may be readily made to form an additional means for securing the sections together. The section d may be provided with a short middle projection 01, as shown in Fig. 4, which may be bent back on the main part of the section 61, of which it is a part. A wire may then be twisted around the projecting piece d, then around the stem of the key and the Strip 0, and thenby twisting the ends of the wire together an additional securing means is provided, in case the strips do not hold the sections on securely enough. This additional securing means will, however, be necessary only in exceptional instances.

In Fig. 6 'I have shown a slight modification which is particularly adapted for a socket having a flaring shade which would interfere with the'ends of the attachment when made in the form shown in the other views.

Other changes in form may obviously be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, I may desire to die both Sections out of one piece of metal, as shown in Fig. 7, and have them connected by a short intermediate strip f, extending across from the middle of the straight sides opposite the strips 0' and d d". The intermediate stripf in this modification is preferably of the same width and length as the width and'thickness of the key.

Although I have described my invention with special reference to an electriclight socket,'it obviously may be used with equal advantages on a gasvalve.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. An attachment for a turning-key consisting of two metal sections arranged on each side of the key, strips which extend from said sections and secure the same to the key, and pendants Secured to each end of said sections which are adapted to be pulled to turn the key.

2 An attachment for a turning-key con-, which is integrally connectedto both of said sisting of two sheet-metal sections arranged on opposite sides of the key, two strips which extend from one of said sections and are bent across the key on each side of its stern and down on the other section, a strip on said latter section which is bent down on the two strips first named, and pull-chains which are secured to each end of said sections.

3. An attachment for a turning-key consisting of two sheet-metal sections which are arranged on opposite sides of the key a strip" sections, projecting strips which extend from said sections and are bent so as to secure them to said key, and pendants secured to each end of said sections which are adapted to be pulled to turn the key.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig nature in presence of two witnesses.

v THERESA M. PEPPER; Witnesses:

LoUIs H. HA-RRIMAN; O. A. ,AHEARNE, J r; 

